You mean you never considered that a billion dollars buys a hell of a good new identity with $999 million and change left over?
You mean you never considered those 10,000 people might have friends and family that care about them and might seek vengeance upon you?
You mean you never considered that a billion dollars buys a hell of a good new identity with $999 million and change left over?
You get a chance to commit white collar crime to the tune of a billion dollars. You walk scotfree and with an unbleminished reputation from your crime. But the lives of ten thousand people (shareholders or small time creditors or employees etc. take your pick) are destroyed by your crime.
Most of them will either take to crime, become homeless or even commit suicide, but you walk free with a tax free billion in an offshore account. Remember its all or nothing.
Will you take it or will your conscience not allow you to do it?
I was thinking The Senate, the House of Representatives, the entire Executive and Supreme Court branches, then save a few slots for the worst terrorists, Somali pirates, televangelists, Wall Street thieves and maybe a used car salesman or two.
What's wrong with you, disappoint? Teenager?
The guy was a philanthropist! And not a philanderer at all! Great candidate for the Republican Party I'm sure. We know how they don't like their philanderers, but love their philanthropists. Hell if I'm going to go down in flames, I'm going to go all out.Madoff was a prominent philanthropist,[16][132] who served on boards of nonprofit institutions, many of which entrusted his firm with their endowments.[16][132] The collapse and freeze of his personal assets and those of his firm affected businesses, charities, and foundations around the world, including the Chais Family Foundation,[154] the Robert I. Lappin Charitable Foundation, the Picower Foundation, and the JEHT Foundation which were forced to close.[16][155] Madoff donated approximately $6 million to lymphoma research after his son Andrew was diagnosed with the disease.[156] He and his wife gave over $230,000 to political causes since 1991, with the bulk going to the Democratic Party.[157]
Madoff served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Sy Syms School of Business at Yeshiva University, and as Treasurer of its Board of Trustees.[132] He resigned his position at Yeshiva University after his arrest.[155] Madoff also served on the Board of New York City Center, a member of New York City's Cultural Institutions Group (CIG).[158] He served on the executive council of the Wall Street division of the UJA Foundation of New York which declined to invest funds with him because of the conflict of interest.[159]
Madoff undertook charity work for the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation and made philanthropic gifts through the Madoff Family Foundation, a $19 million private foundation, which he managed along with his wife.[16] They donated money to hospitals and theaters.[132] The foundation has also contributed to many educational, cultural, and health charities...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Madoff#Personal_life
If you have no problem being the next Bernie Madoff, maybe the problem lies with you. Can you be more specific what you think is wrong with me?
You know what? Maybe you're right after all. Maybe being the next Bernie Madoff might not be so bad after all
The OP said we'd get away with it?
So it's ok to be the next Bernie Madoff, as long as you get away with it? Heck, it's maybe great even. So since you aspire to be like him, only just slightly better at it, we can think of him as a pioneer in the field of con artistry! Brilliant! So you'll sign the petition then?
Little kid and man are contradictory. You seem conflicted, maybe confused. So is that a yes now to my petition or shall we wait till you grow out of your state of confusion?
Take that up with tracy morgan.
I am confused. What does madoff have to do with this hypothetical?
He decided, thinking he would get away with it, to screw people over for billions of dollars which is what the OP hypothetical is postulating. He must have thought he would get away with it because why would he do it if he knew he'd get caught?
Except we know we won't get caught. It's a plainly stated assumption meant to be taken for granted. You're changing the terms, mankid.
Madoff knew he wouldn't get caught too.
Perhaps you and I are talking about 2 different things. You might be talking about a fictional universe or story in which you can know things like that for certain. I'm talking about a non-fictional universe in which you can't.
That's my point too. This thread is a fictional universe. I'm glad you finally get it
Ha! All you fools that voted yes and were oh so sure have fallen for one of the world's oldest and most classic blunders! You must have all checked your brains in at the door! Just because some random internet nobody or worse, your own mind, told you that you'd get off scotfree (whatever the fack that is! Who is scot?) You believed it? Do you really believe you'd get away with a crime like that? For how long? No consequences my ass. This is one of the reasons why the grand ole US of A has the highest per capita prison population in the world. Because of fools that are oh so sure they can outsmart everyone and get away with it.
I was aware of those two universes all along, after all, I brought it up. You could have saved yourself a lot of posting had you brought it up sooner. but you couldn't bring up that which you didn't think of could you? The question now is: Which one do you live in? For you, the consequences of your actions have already begun in the real universe.
Madoff knew he wouldn't get caught too.
Perhaps you and I are talking about 2 different things. You might be talking about a fictional universe or story in which you can know things like that for certain. I'm talking about a non-fictional universe in which you can't.